“Old wine in a new bottle” - post COVID-19 infection, central serous chorioretinopathy and the steroids

Introduction Corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic can cause myriad of ocular manifestations. We report a case of unilateral multi focal central serous retinopathy, post COVID-19 infection in an Asian Indian female. Case presentation A 42-year-old female presented to us with unilateral blurring, in the right eye (OD), 12 days after COVID-19 infection. She had fever, chills, shortness of breath and cough with tiredness and was COVID- RT PCR positive. She was administered intravenous and oral antibiotics with injection heparin/remdesivir, during her 7 day stay at the hospital. She was also on steroid inhalers. She had no systemic history of note. On ocular evaluation, her corrected distance visual acuity was 20/40 in OD and 20/20 in left eye (OS). Anterior segment was normal. Anterior vitreous was clear. Fundus examination of the OD showed central serous retinopathy (CSCR) with OS being normal. Conclusion CSCR can occur post COVID-19 due to steroid administration and physicians administering it should be aware of this and refer the patients to an ophthalmologist earlier..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

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Journal of ophthalmic inflammation and infection - 11(2021), 1 vom: 14. Mai

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sanjay, Srinivasan [VerfasserIn]
Gowda, Poornachandra B. [VerfasserIn]
Rao, Bhimasena [VerfasserIn]
Mutalik, Deepashri [VerfasserIn]
Mahendradas, Padmamalini [VerfasserIn]
Kawali, Ankush [VerfasserIn]
Shetty, Rohit [VerfasserIn]

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Central serous chorioretinopathy
Corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19)
Inhalational steroids
Ophthalmic manifestations
Oral steroids
Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT)

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© The Author(s) 2021

doi:

10.1186/s12348-021-00244-4

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OLC2125462451